Shooting Parrots

Wet Weekend

Monday, 8 November 2010

We have two phones in the house, the second being Mrs P’s business line. I usually happily ignore it as it only rings during the day and even then there are others about to answer it. So it was a surprise when its distinctive tones brayed out at midnight last night. I ignored it the [...]

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Don’t try this at home

Sunday, 7 November 2010

You have to admire skill and the human spirit of adventure. Or is it stupidity? Whatever, this collection is very impressive, although I’m still not convinced the running on water is real.

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To Whit* Twitter

Saturday, 6 November 2010

I was at WordCamp earlier this year, the annual weekend event for WordPress users that happened to be in Manchester this year. There had been a coffee break and I wa sitting in the lecture theatre waiting for the next session to begin. The presenter was chatting to one or two people and tapping on [...]

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MI5 Not Nine to Five

Thursday, 4 November 2010

Less than a week before the end of series nine of Spooks and I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned once in my posts. I’m surprised because it is one of the few programmes on telly that I make a point of watching. There will be those of you who don’t or can’t watch it and [...]

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P is for Pub

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

There are pubs to be found all over Tameside and Stockport, as there are in other towns and villages in England. They used to be a focal point for local people and are as much a part of the history of the industrial revolution as the mills and factories. As the industrial towns grew in [...]

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Ban the Bob

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Having a birthday at the end of October, the party games when I was a youngster tended to have a Halloween theme. One of the most popular was dry-bobbing for apples. This involved hanging apples from a door lintel by string tied to their stalks. To win the game, you had to take a bite [...]

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The Book of Secrets

Saturday, 30 October 2010

Life has been rather hectic lately and I haven’t many opportunities to go online, other than to work on a website I’m putting together for an acquaintance. There has been some downtime, however, with my latest read The Book of Secrets by Tom Harper. I bought it on the strength of The Lazarus Vault which [...]

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Capital Punishment

Thursday, 28 October 2010

Yorkshire Pudding wrote a thoughtful piece about the purpose of anger the other day and raised some interesting points. Is anger necessarily a bad thing for example? Does it change in nature as we age? I rather think it does. When I was an angry young man I got very hot under the collar about [...]

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O is for Orange

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

It is safe to say there will be no rhymes this week because nothing rhymes with orange. Lozenge is about as near as you can get with an online rhyming dictionary. Left is the Prince of Orange pub on Warrington Street and Wellington Road, Ashton, named after the man who was to become William III [...]

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